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Stock brokers tend to limit their reading to wine lists in restaurants but
there were literary nods from two of the biggest yesterday as they tried to
talk up a market devoid of a pulse.

Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs’ chief global equity strategist, made the
case for shares in “The Long Good Buy II”, 60 years after Raymond Chandler
wrote his Philip Marlowe detective novel and 18 months after Mr Oppenheimer
first argued that stocks offered the prospect of the best relative returns
for a generation.

They still look good, he said. Returns may be more moderate than they have